Question about some FlxText changes

[Geokureli]

People are requesting I make some QOL changes to FlxTextFormatRange in the main flixel fork, and I noticed it's private, so I assume they're using your fork. I'm down to make it public, but curious why this was done in the first place, as text.addFormat() easily creates one. Is this a quick way to apply formats to multiple areas, multiple texts or something?

Have any examples of people directly using this class?

Also do you have any other changes in this fork that I should consider for Flixel?

[Circuitella]

so uhh i got a suggestion for yall but its not really in this fork

Switch Compiling as found in this unrelated fork https://github.com/Slushi-Github/flixel-switch

[Geokureli]

so uhh i got a suggestion for yall but its not really in this fork

Switch Compiling as found in this unrelated fork https://github.com/Slushi-Github/flixel-switch

noted

[NexIsDumb]

hey there!

sorry for taking an entire day to answer the issue but I have been asking around the dev server of the engine about the suggestions to consider for base flixel, and after consulting ourselves this is what came out:

• sprite's zoomFactor (which is not in this flixel fork, but here): it basically modifies the sprite's sizes based on the camera's zoom
• sprite's makeSolid (here): an alternative for makeGraphic that uses almost nothing of memory since its a 1x1 colored pixel scaled up
• camera's rotateSprite (here): to avoid rotating the flash sprite of the camera if you set it as false, basically: if true -> sprite rotated; if false -> draw matrices rotated
• sprite's frameOffset (here)
• flxbackdrop's rotation (its not base flixel ofc but flixel-addons but many loved it when we released it, it would be a good addition to addons, the whole class is in here)

while we did our best in coding them, im sure you guys can even do better as the code is pretty dated and unfortunately many of us are busy as of this period due to studies, including myself with university

while for the other question you've asked

but curious why this was done in the first place, as text.addFormat() easily creates one.

back in the day when yoshi was still developing the early phases of the engine, he made this commit and basically made a looot of classes public for easier developing, testing with mainly macros and being able to store a pointer to there without hassles; its been a long time since that commit and we don't remember much else

[SrtHero278]

while we're at it, may i also reccommand FlxCamera's addShader and removeShader?

every now and then it can be a bit annoying to have to import the ShaderFilter class, construct it along with an array then finally you can set it to a camera.

[NexIsDumb]

while we're at it, may i also reccommand FlxCamera's addShader and removeShader?

every now and then it can be a bit annoying to have to import the ShaderFilter class, construct it along with an array then finally you can set it to a camera.

oh yeah definitely